Mr. Ian Butler
Ian is a Catholic clinician who worked from 1999 to 2020 as a counselor for Catholic Social Services with the Diocese of Lincoln Nebraska, a clinical site specializing in the integration of the truths of the Catholic faith with Psychology. He founded Holy Family Counseling in 2006 to provide outreach for Catholics in more remote places or where faithful counseling was unavailable. He has a Masters in Counseling from Franciscan University with a concentration in Christian Counseling as well as a Masters in Theological Studies from Ave Maria University’s Institute for Pastoral Theology. Since 2007, he has been a faculty member for the Institute for Priestly Formation, a summer seminary in Omaha Nebraska that draws up to 175 seminarians annually for a 9 week program focusing on deepening the prayer life of seminarians and removing or healing obstacles to healthy prayer and ministry. Since 2011, he has assisted in the human formation of aspirants for the Deaconate Program of the Archdiocese of Omaha. He provides healing and integration formation for religious orders, conferences, a spiritual direction school, seminaries and retreats. He is married, has three children and a black lab.